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Technology can make us better, faster, stronger, and more productive. But it has another promise: accessibility. Marketplace Tech takes a look at how the latest gadgets and apps are helping people with disabilities approach their life in new ways – from using iPhones for dyslexia to wearing Google Glass for autism.enCould Google Glass help people with autism?http://www.marketplace.org/topics/tech/access-tech/could-google-glass-help-people-autism

All this week we've been looking at how technology is helping people with disabilities approach their lives in new ways. Today we hear from a guy who is looking toward the future of accessibility. Paul Louden is a Google Glass Explorer. The Texan scored an early pair of the wired glasses by telling Google he was on a particular mission: to help people with autism. He himself has autism and he thinks Glass could help with a common challenge for people like him.

All this week we're looking at how technology is helping people with disabilities approach their lives in new ways. We've spoken to academics as well as technology designers and engineers. Today we’re talking with Jennifer Feinberg, the brains behind an app called Wheel New York. If it raises enough cash on crowdfunding site Kickstarter, Wheel New York could become like a Yelp for wheelchair access.

All this week we're looking at accessibility and how technology is helping people with disabilities approach their lives in new ways. Today's installment starts with an anomaly: a Harvard professor who doesn't like to read -- at least not until recently.

Dr. Matt Schneps is an astrophysicist who suffers from dyslexia, and he's published a study this summer with some surprising findings. It turns out that reading on a computer screen -- even a tiny one -- might actually help people like Schneps with speed and focus.

Many of us look to technology to add to our regular faculties -- make us better, faster, stronger, and more productive. But it has another promise for millions of people around the world: accessibility.

Design researcher Tom Bieling has made something called the Lorm Glove, which could soon help people who are deaf or blind communicate. Beeling's glove, which was developed at the Design Research Lab in Berlin, is covered with sensors that allow the wearer to send and recieve messages.

Many of us look to technology to add to our regular faculties -- make us better, faster, stronger, and more productive. But there's another promise of new technology for millions of people around the world: accessibility.

Larry Goldberg, director of WGBH's National Center for Accessible Media, joins Marketplace Tech host Ben Johnson to discuss new ways tech is helping people with disabilities. Click on the audio player above to hear more.